Greg Richards

About Greg Richards

Identity Security Architect, Enterprise / Cloud Architect focused on Governance, Security, and Compliance. Technical Solutions Architect, Senior Solutions Manager, Senior Program Manager with a 20+ year track record of success in providing creative solutions to business problems with extensive experience in private, public, and hybrid cloud scenarios with focus on governance and compliance. Extensive experience with pre-sales and consulting solution and services design, build out of technical teams, design and launch of technical and business-process outsourcing managed services, business intelligence reporting development, and service innovation/continuous improvement, year-over-year.Recognized leader of cross-team and cross group collaboration projects, very experienced in working with diverse sets of stakeholders up to the highest levels of management. Deep understanding of:• Identity Security principles and Information Security Risk Management• Enterprise Active Directory & Azure AD architecture and operational practices• Azure Commercial, Gov & Sovereign deployments• Cross-cloud and multicloud deployments• Zero Trust adoption & operational practices• Azure platform capabilities - PIM, RBAC/ABAC, Identity Protection, Identity Governance and Entitlements Management, Conditional Access, B2B, B2C, SSO, MFA, Management Hierarchies & Management Groups, AADC identity synchronization, AAD to AWS SSO integration, Defender for Identity, Defender for Cloud• Security best practices for software DevTest/DevOps/DevSecOps• Cloud services compliance & security considerations• Designing for resiliency, Backup, ASR, BCDRExtensive experience spanning Product teams and Corporate IT teams in large and small organizations with expertise in the following areas:• Enterprise Cloud Services Integration• Solutions Architecture and Management• Technical Program Management• Strategic Security Planning • Compliance Control management (SOX, ISO 27001/27018, NIST, HIPAA, GDPR)Proficiencies and Subject Matter ExpertiseOffice 365 | EMS | CASB | Azure | Powershell | Microsoft Graph | Active Directory | AAD | SSO | MFA | Microsoft Dynamics 365 / CRM | Marketing Automation | SQL Server | T-SQL | Stored Procedures | XML | XSLT | VBA | Javascript | Business Intelligence | Data reporting solutions | PowerBI | Secure File Transfer | Cloud service integration | Cloud service migration | Cloud Service Administration & Compliance | Cloud Application Integration | Cloud Identity Management | Information Security | Identity and Access Management | Managed Services

Experience

1. Principal Consultant

   Quisitive

   Jun 2022 — Present

Education

• Princeton University

  Bachelor's Degree, Psychology

Skills

• Disaster Recovery
• Applications Software Development
• Application Infrastructure Design
• Federated Identity Management
• Cloud Storage
• Mobile Devices
• Solutions Architecture
• Agile Project Management
• Software Project Management
• Crm
• Integration
• Project Portfolio Management
• Windows Azure
• Application Architecture
• Access Control Management
• Mobile Applications
• Sdlc
• Solution Architecture
• Active Directory
• Information Security
• Agile Methodologies
• Management
• Security
• Enterprise Software
• Enterprise Architecture
• Continuous Improvement
• Reporting & Analysis
• Cloud Computing
• Solutions Management
• Office 365
• Sharepoint
• Application Security
• Cloud Applications
• IT Solutions
• Service Delivery
• IT Strategy
• Identity Management
• Enterprise Risk Management
• Data Center
• Roles-Based Access Management